Welcome to the Telapost SEO and Content Marketing Blog. Our most popular categories have articles about Content Creation, Google My Business News, SEO News, Technical SEO and Case Studies. Sometimes there are random posts about business or North Carolina. Here’s our blog’s RSS feed, our blog’s Feedburner Feed and our a category specific SEO News Feed. Below you will find the entire blog’s most recent articles beginning with the newest articles first.
Today Google announced Shared Endorsements. You might be thinking that this sounds a lot like Facebook’s Sponsored Stories or other forms of social advertising, but there are some big differences. Google is telling us ahead of time of the changes. Google will not lie about pages we
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Matt Cutts announced Penguin 2.1 today via tweet. This is good news. Spammers beware. Clients rejoice. Panda & penguin are all black and white to me (pun intended). If you have a quality website with quality SEO done to it and are playing by the guideless, and you
Read more →Yesterday, Google announced “Hummingbird” right from the garage that Larry Page and Sergey Brin used as Google’s first office. This update is unique as it seems that has been out for weeks now and nobody even noticed! Generally, I am very happy when the algorithm gets updated.
Read more →Starting now, when you search for a hashtag on Google, Google+ hashtag results may display on the right hand side of the page. Today’s update will be available (initially) to English language users on google.com & google.ca. I’m playing with hashtags now. This is great. Google gets
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You can now embed autoawesome pics into your website!! #embeddedawesome Related: How to embed a Google+post into your website
Read more →Hot off the Google+ Developers Blog comes the news that you can now embed Google+ posts into your website. Simply take the javascript code and insert it into your website. This is the final result of a post embeded into our blog: This is great because now
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Google eCity Awards recognize the strongest online business community in each state. Across the country, businesses that are online expect to grow 40% faster. Congratulations to all of the small businesses that are connected. And if you’re not, get connected with Telapost, of course! 🙂 Cary, NC
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Telapost is now a 3dcart authorized partner. One of our newest clients in Durham, NC is using 3dcart. It is an interesting cart software with many features, reasonable pricing ad is also easily customizable. We had a quick tech support question and the people at 3dcart were
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Google+ Comments for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that seamlessly adds tabs for G+ Comments, Facebook, WordPress Comments, Trackbacks, and more, drastically reducing the amount of work required for users to interact with your blog (eg: leaving comments). The plugin ingeniously follows up right on the heels
Read more →WordPress Two Step Authentication is here. If you are looking for better security for your wordpress blog we recommend checking out this new plugin. If you need help securing your site just let us know.
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Paid YouTube Subscriptions coming soon? Rumor has it that paid subscriptions on YouTube for specialist video channels are coming soon. Mashable reports on it here. (Google has not made this official yet, so we’re citing it as a rumor.) At this point I’m not sure if the
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Today the Senate votes on an Internet Sales Tax. Should we have an Internet sales tax? About 14 years ago I set out to open a computer store. In the early 90’s you could really make a living building computers. By the late 90’s there wasn’t much
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Ok bloggers, get blogging! Conceived over 40 years ago and globally recognized for over 20 years, Earth Day is here. It’s Earth Day’s birth day. I expect each and every one of you to post unique, original, inspiring, shareable content on your websites and social media accounts
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Someone contacted us today with a fun job. Their WordPress website had spam in it. Their feed had spam in it as well. It was linking to some site that sells, um, performance enhancers.. 🙂 WordPress and WordPress feeds are commonly targeted for exploits. They did not
Read more →If we’re already taking care of your Internet marketing needs, you don’t have to worry about any of this. However if you wish to tackle it yourself or just understand more about it, below you will find information about correctly configuring your business’s Local Google+ Page. Create
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The new Probiz.us launched this morning. The old site was put together by the owner quite some time ago. At the owner’s request our web designer kept the page simple and clean and used the ProBiz header image and logo. We set this one with WordPress so
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Capital Maintenance Supply was recently put together and launched. We set up the site for performance, entered all products, figured out a way to estimate freight shipments and integrate this into the shopping cart, worked with BigCommerce staff on canonical and other SEO issues, configured GeoTrust SSL
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As covered in the general news, there have been quite a few attacks lately. The latest security breach comes from twitter were about 250,000 accounts were compromised to some extent. Twitter has responded and as a precautionary security measure has reset passwords and revoked session tokens for
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Oct 23 2012 I analyzed the last 30 days of human search behavior over at Google trends. Romney gets little pops of interest around the debates, but the majority of interest is in Obama. Internet traffic doesn’t necessarily predict the outcome of elections. Or does it? If
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One of our clients has a local site. It is an odd niche, with low conversions yet high competition. In May we optimized the on page SEO and started promoting it offsite with quality work. In July the efforts were rewarded. The page started performing well for
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